On Liberty (ISR Business and the Political-legal Environment Studies, #6) (Oxford Paperbacks) (Cosimo Classics Philosophy)

by John Stuart Mill

Gertrude Himmelfarb (Introduction)

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'Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.' To this 'one very simple principle' the whole of Mill's essay On Liberty is dedicated. While many of his immediate predecessors and contemporaries, from Adam Smith to Godwin and Thoreau, had celebrated liberty, it was Mill who organized the idea into a philosophy, and put it into the form in which it is generally known today.
The editor of this essay, Gertrude Himmelfarb records responses to Mill's books and comments on his fear of 'the tyranny of the majority'. Dr Himmelfarb concludes that the same inconsistencies which underlie On Liberty continue to complicate the moral and political stance of liberals today.

  • ISBN10 0140432078
  • ISBN13 9780140432077
  • Publish Date 27 May 1982 (first published 1 January 1859)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Out of Print 21 January 2021
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
  • Imprint Penguin Classics
  • Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
  • Pages 192
  • Language English